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Synchronizing means it's trying to use the time server online. If you have no internet that will happen. Try turning off Windows Time in Services. You can open services by
Winkey r
then type in
services.msc

If your CMOS battery is dead it should still let you set the time. It will just be wrong if you shut the machine down since the battery can't keep up anymore.

Okay I and others I suggested to set time and date manually.
Go to your time and date lower right and right tick it.
Then tick on adjust time and date.
Then tick on Change Date and Time.
Now manually change the date and time and tick OK.
Now go to internet time and then change settings and choose Time. windows.com and tick Update.

Right I have done that and everything seems fine? Is there any other checks I can do? The computer has been unused for 10 days? It is only 18 months old so didn't think any battery could have went?

Change the battery. 18 months old is plenty old enough to fail. I am done with this thread, by not changing the battery you are creating work for everyone and wasting our time. (Pun intended). We have told you what to do, you asked for help and we have advised you to replace the battery, set the time and date and your issues will go away. How hard can this be. Perhaps you prefer to take the tower in for service and be charged 100 quid for a 5 quid battery.........

Tons of files missing, desktop reset, browsers and toolbars reset...Hello everyone,
I'm kind of freaking out right now. I turned my computer off about 12 hours ago, and now that I turned it on again it took much longer than usual for it to prepare the desktop. When I got in, there are about 50 % of my desktop icons missing, the programs I had attached to the...

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2 minute clock on home screen after factory reset?Hello
This is my first post here so I hope I am in the correct section.
I recently handed over my laptop to the kids & then they managed to lock it with a password nobody could remember. So long story short I did a factory reset on it which worked well, however now there is a 2 minute timer...

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Clock Drift driving me nuts. Any way to sync to CMOS clock?And old Windows problem has finally reared its ugly head on my system: "clock drift". My Windows clock keeps losing time. About 1 minute by the end of the day.
My CMOS clock is fine and is NOT losing time. I shut my PC off at night, automatically correcting the Windows clock when I restart the...

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How See Digital Clock From Task Bar Clock?In the task bar, when I click on the clock, how can I make the clock window that pops show me a digital clock?
Currently, it shows me an image of a legacy round analog clock.

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Clock on pc lost 2 hours on the clock ?Anyone know what could cause this? I have two towers I built that I switch back and forth on mainly to keep the antivirus up to date. This particular one when left off for a couple days lost 2 hours on the clock. This is also, the one that when I turned it on a while back it was so screwed up I had...